What Total Republican Control Will Mean

This is what we have in store if a Republican gains the presidency. Republicans already control the Senate and the House of Representatives and will establish a Republican-leaning Supreme Court.

Get ready for a tsunami of privatization. Social Security will be handed over to the stock market. Medicare and Medicaid will become unrecognizable, if they exist at all. The excessively maligned Veterans Affairs health care system will be dismantled.

Environmental controls will evaporate, turning our air and water into business playthings. Food safety, transportation and workplace safeguards will be gutted. The lid will be taken off the cookie jar for investment bankers to once again gamble with other people's money. Economically, there will be a deregulated cornucopia for the wealthy and austerity for the rest of us.

Individual rights will erode even further. Good luck if you're not a white, straight, Christian male. The far right will be given the green light to bulldoze its way into every aspect of our lives and it will suck the soul out of this country.

If you think all of this is fanciful, listen to the Republicans themselves. They will carry us back to the 19th century and we'll only have ourselves to blame.